Believing In God

Question 1

agnosticism

Answer 1

not being sure whether God exsist

Question 2

atheism

Answer 2

not believing that God exsist

Question 3

conversion

Answer 3

when your life is changed by giving yourself to God

Question 4

free will

Answer 4

the idea that human beings are free to make their own choices

Question 5

miracle

Answer 5

something which seems to break a law of science and makes you think only God could’ve done it

Question 6

moral evil

Answer 6

actions done by humans which cause suffering

Question 7

natural evil

Answer 7

things which cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans

Question 8

numinous

Answer 8

the feeling of the presence something greater than you

Question 9

omni benevolent

Answer 9

the belief that God is all good

Question 10

omni potent

Answer 10

the belief that God is all powerful

Question 11

omniscient

Answer 11

the belief that God is all knowing

Question 12

prayer

Answer 12

an attempt to contact God usually through words

Question 13

main features of a Catholic upbringing

Answer 13

have babies baptised and promise to bring up their children to believe in God and be good Catholics
teach their children to believe in God
teach their children to pray
take children to mass to learn how to worship God

Question 14

is it natural for children who have had a Catholic upbringing to believe in God because:

Answer 14

their Catholic parents would have told them about God and they will ivboisily take after their parents
Catholics pray to God so they will believe in God because they will think why will their parent waste their time praying if God is not real
seeing people worship God
their teachers will tell them it’s true

Question 15

you may be required to argue for and against religious experience proving gods existence

Answer 15

1. a numinous experience
2. conversion
3. a miracle
4. feeling like God is listening to your prayers

Question 16

points on the argument from design?

Answer 16

anything that has been designed needs a designer
plenty of evidence that the world has been designed
if the world has been designed their has to be a designer
there for this proves that God exsist

Question 17

people who think the argument from causation proves God’s existence may use these arguements:

Answer 17

the argument makes sense of ourselves and the universe because it explains how and why we are here
fits in with common sense and we cannot believe that something can come from nothing
argument fits in with science which tells us that everything has a cause and the cause must be God
we believe things must have started off and must have a beginning and the argument explains that God started off the universe

Question 18

people who think the argument of causation does not prove gods existence

Answer 18

if everything needs a cause then why should the process stop with God?
it is possible that matter itself is eternal and was never created.
just because everything in the argument needs an explanation does not mean the universe does. the universe could just be here
even if their was a first cause it doesn’t mean it was God from a particular religion . it could be a mixture of bad and good

Question 19

science explains how the world came into being this way

Answer 19

matter is eternal
as the matter of the universe flew away from the explosion it formed stars and then solar system
the big bang theory
the gases on earth surface produced primitive life

Question 20

how the scientific explanation of the world may lead to agnosticism or atheism

Answer 20

if science can explain the universe and humans without God it can lead some people to be agnostic as they no longer need God to explain .

other people may believe that if God exsisted he must of made the world and be the only explanation for it

Question 21

how Catholics respond to scientific explanations of the world

Answer 21

only God could’ve made the big bang theory to form the universe
only God could’ve made laws such as gravity which the big bang needed to form solar systems
only God could’ve made the gases on earth to form life

Question 22

scientific explanations of the world proving God does not exist

Answer 22

if God exsisted he would be the only explanation of the world therefore the fact that science can explain the world and humans without proof that God exsist
big bang was an accident and no evidence that it was cause by God
an omnipotent and omniscient God would not have created such an wasteful world with many species dying for humans

Question 23

why unanswered prayers may lead to agnosticism or athiesm

Answer 23

unanswered prayers

if somebody prays for a child to get better and they get worse people may lose their faith in God

Question 24

how Catholics respond to unanswered prayers

Answer 24

if you pray for selfish things God will let you fail and make you work harder next time
prayer might not be answered because God has different plans for the person
God gives you what you need not what you want

Question 25

how Catholics respond to unanswered prayers

Answer 25

praying for selfish things God will make you work harder for next time and let you fail
unanswered prayers because God has different plans for you
God is like a human parent gives you what you need not what you want
God will only do the best for you

Question 26

moral evil

Answer 26

caused by humans

Question 27

natural evil

Answer 27

not caused by humans

Question 28

how evil and suffering cause people to question or reject there belief in God

Answer 28

if God was all powerful he would be able to remove all the evil and suffering
if God was all good he would want to remove all evil and suffering
it follows that if God exsisted there would be no evil and suffering
God is not all powerful or all good

Question 29

Catholics respond to the problem of evil and suffering

Answer 29

praying for those who suffer
helping those who suffer
claiming that evil and suffering are the fault of humans misusing their free will
evil and suffering are a test to prepare people for heaven